Final

Question 1

Tennessee celebrated its centennial with a huge fair called?

Answer 1

The centennial exposition

Question 2

Promotors of the New south were trying to bring. more agriculture to the south

Answer 2

false

Question 3

by 1900, Tennessee had 3,137. miles of track

Answer 3

true

Question 4

in the 1890s, Tennessee had experienced an —— boom

Answer 4

industrial

Question 5

according to table 8.1 on page 187, textiles were Tennessee leading industry in 1900.

Answer 5

false

Question 6

according to table 8.2 which major Tennessee city had the highest percentage of population growth between 1870-1900?

Answer 6

Chattanooga

Question 7

Ida B. Wells led a crusade against lynching

Answer 7

true

Question 8

The coal miners war began because the company hired convicts from the state to break a strike?

Answer 8

true

Question 9

in 1878, Memphis was hit with a deadly breakout of swine flu

Answer 9

false

Question 10

in the 1880s, the temperance movement became more popular as an effort to outlaw alcoholic drink in the state

Answer 10

true

Question 11

Nashvilles most lucrative product was?

Answer 11

flour

Question 12

Tennessee saw phenomenal industrial growth as a result of new south efforts

Answer 12

false

Question 13

northern factory owners were promised “cheap, Docile” labor if they moved their factories to the south

Answer 13

true

Question 14

Tennessee was one of the most successful New south states

Answer 14

false

Question 15

by 1900, Tennessee leading industry was

Answer 15

flour and grist mills

Question 16

the prohibition of alcohol was one of the biggest goals of Tennessee progressives

Answer 16

true

Question 17

the rich elite led the way in achieving progressive goals

Answer 17

false

Question 18

Memphis mayor Ed Crump controlled west Tennessee politics and refused to enforce prohobition

Answer 18

true

Question 19

in 1907, the church of god moved to Cleveland tn

Answer 19

true

Question 20

women generally worked as teachers, in stores or factories, or as “Typewriters”

Answer 20

true

Question 21

governor Austin Peay is best known for reforming the states public— system and building new—–.

Answer 21

education, roads

Question 22

after state prohibition, Tennessee women worked to secure a woman’s right to—.

Answer 22

vote

Question 23

in 1916, Clarence Saunders opened piggly wiggly, the first modern supermarket in memphis

Answer 23

true

Question 24

the Ku Klux Klan saw a popular resurgence in the teens and 1920s

Answer 24

true

Question 25

the butler act provided the basis for this famous Dayton, Tennessee trial in 1925.

Answer 25

scopes monkey trial

Question 26

Hillbilly music was another name for country music

Answer 26

true

Question 27

The flight of southern blacks to the north to seek hobs and flee Jim Crow is called the great------.

Answer 27

great migration

Question 28

Like Lea was the governor for most of the 20s

Answer 28

false

Question 29

by the end of the 20s, Tennessee had less than 4000 miles of paved highway

Answer 29

false

Question 30

in 1923, governor Austin Peay reorganized state government to make it more efficient and to give the governor more power

Answer 30

true

Question 31

money from a --- tax funded the roads project

Answer 31

gasoline

Question 32

one result of the general education bill standardized teacher pay at the state level

Answer 32

true

Question 33

any county that levied a fifty cent tax for schools would receive enough funds for a non month school year

Answer 33

false. eight month

Question 34

statewide teachers pay was funded through tobacco tax

Answer 34

true

Question 35

the 75 million dollars spent building roads did not add any debt to the state treasury

Answer 35

true

Question 36

the Tennessee town was the site of a race riot in 1919

Answer 36

knoxville

Question 37

better educational opportunities in rural Tennessee allowed many from the country to move to the cities for work

Answer 37

true

Question 38

after WW1, agricultural prices remained high

Answer 38

false

Question 39

banks and insurance companies increased employment opportunities for women

Answer 39

true

Question 40

in 1923, her recording of "Down hearted blues" sold over two million records

Answer 40

bessie smith

Question 41

national life and accident insurance company started the radio station WLCA in 1923

Answer 41

false

Question 42

The birth of a southern nation is a DW Griffin film from 1915

Answer 42

true. based off of a book

Question 43

Herbert hoover was blamed for not doing enough to stop the great depression

Answer 43

true

Question 44

elected president in 1932

Answer 44

Franklin Rosevelt

Question 45

The new presidents program for ending the depression was called the fair deal

Answer 45

false. new deal

Question 46

the caldwell banking firm was the first big Tennessee casualty of the depression

Answer 46

true

Question 47

The TVA was designed to bring electricity to rural areas of Tn, Georgia, and Alabama

Answer 47

true

Question 48

this entire city was built during the 1940s as a part of the Manhattan project

Answer 48

oak ridge

Question 49

Tennessees climate and terrain made it perfect for military war games, the biggest which were held in middle Tennessee in 1943

Answer 49

true

Question 50

Nashvilles aircraft plant was the Boeing aircraft plant

Answer 50

false

Question 51

because of the draft, thousands of --- found work in tn factories

Answer 51

women

Question 52

smyrna had an airbase during WW2

Answer 52

true

Question 53

During the Great Depression, rural small farmers suffered less than urban residents

Answer 53

true

Question 54

the goal of the "alphabet programs" was to

Answer 54

provide employment

Question 55

knoxville had bread lines

Answer 55

true

Question 56

Tennessee saw a reverse migration from the cities to farm

Answer 56

true

Question 57

African Americans saw gains in employment during the depression

Answer 57

false

Question 58

one of the first school desegregation cases took place in Clinton high school in Anderson county

Answer 58

true

Question 59

the first black undergraduates entered UT in January 1961

Answer 59

true

Question 60

this Supreme Court case opened the door for desegregation in 1954

Answer 60

brown V board of education

Question 61

the sewage school in montage educated civil rights activists from Rosa Parks to John Lewis

Answer 61

false

Question 62

Many of those involved with the Nashville sit ins were influenced by Glands Ideology of non violent resistanec

Answer 62

true

Question 63

Ben West was mayor of Nashville during the sit ins

Answer 63

true

Question 64

John lewis authored a set of instructions to be carried by Nashville sit in participants

Answer 64

true

Question 65

MLK jr was assassinated in ---- on April 4, 1968

Answer 65

Memphis

Question 66

MLK jr was in that city to show support for the striking garbage workers

Answer 66

true

Question 67

The victims of the Fayette county mass evictions in 1960 brought their plight to national attention by living in a tent

Answer 67

true

Question 68

disgruntled southern democrats formed the Dixiecrat party because harry Truman supported civil rights

Answer 68

true

Question 69

why is the 1960s census significant

Answer 69

for the first time, more than half the population lives in the urban area of the state

Question 70

in 1970, state government revenues totaled 800 million dollars

Answer 70

false

Question 71

sam phillips founded

Answer 71

sun records

Question 72

compared to other southern states, tn was more moderate in response to desegregation

Answer 72

true

Question 73

white southerners established racist citizen councils to fight segregation

Question 74

Nashville had one of the strongest citizens councils in the state

Answer 74

false

Question 75

the highlander school in monteagle was a training ground for civil rights activists

Answer 75

true